The All-Russian Sports Federation of Deaf Sports extends its heartfelt congratulations on the upcoming New Year and Christmas!

This past year has been truly eventful, filled with competitions, festivals, forums, and seminars. We continued to promote Deaf sports across Russia by organizing national championships, youth championships, and country cups, as well as training camps for our national teams. By the end of the year, we successfully held over 200 events.

Let us reflect on the brightest moments of 2024:

• In March, the 11th All-Russian Winter Spartakiade for Deaf Sports was held in Izhevsk and Dmitrov. In November, the 10th All-Russian Summer Spartakiade took place in Saransk with great success, breaking records for participation and the number of disciplines. A total of 655 participants competed and won awards in 10 Deaf sports disciplines.

• In mid-August, Izhevsk hosted the 2nd “Ready for Labor and Defense” festival, which saw the participation of over 150 athletes and 17 teams.

• This year, our Federation participated in two significant sports exhibition forums: “We Are Together. Sport” in Moscow and the “Country of Sports” International Sports Forum in Ufa. At these events, cooperation agreements were signed between the Federation, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), and the Russian Basketball Federation.

• At the end of August, Moscow hosted the first-ever seminar for representatives of 71 regional sports federations in the history of Deaf sports. In October, a seminar for senior coaches and specialists of the Russian national teams was held in Sochi.

The organization of these large-scale events would have been impossible without the support of our partners: the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation, the Centre for Sports Training of the Russian National Teams, the Federal Centre for Sports Reserve Training, the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, regional executive sports authorities, Deaf Sports Federations, and branches of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf.

We also extend our gratitude to the RUSADA anti-doping agency for their special attention to the needs of athletes with hearing impairments, exemplified by the implementation of an educational anti-doping program in Russian Sign Language.

Throughout the year, we conducted numerous working meetings with regional sports ministers and travelled extensively across Russia, visiting regions such as Kaliningrad, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, and Voronezh; the Stavropol, Krasnodar, and Khabarovsk territories; and the republics of Karachay-Cherkessia, Udmurtia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania, Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, and Bashkortostan.

In 2024, the list of Deaf sports disciplines was expanded to include new events: alpine skiing (parallel slalom), basketball (3x3 format), and ski racing (sprint disciplines).

We are a united team, and I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to our shared mission. What we do is truly meaningful — we provide people with hearing disabilities the chance to live a full life and realize their potential.

Our mission is to help every individual with hearing impairments find like-minded people, discover a sport they love, and embrace a healthy lifestyle.

Dear partners, colleagues, athletes, coaches, sports fans, and supporters, I wish you all exciting projects, happiness in your personal lives, and inspiration in the coming New Year. We deeply appreciate your efforts and dedication to deaf sports; every contribution matters.

Thank you for being with us — together, we can achieve great things!

Happy New Year 2025!